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Crack Family grave stone, Ipswich General Cemetery. The cemetery is bounded by Warwick Road, Cooney Street, Parrott Street, Briggs Road and Cemetery Road. [3] It is a denominational cemetery with sections allocated to Roman Catholic Church, Church of England, Methodist Church, Presbyterian Church, Congregational Church, Baptist Church, Lutheran Church, Christadelphian Church and Salvation Army.
Although listing the names of dead soldiers on memorials had started with the Boer Wars, this practice was only systematically adopted after World War I, with the establishment of the Imperial War Graves Commission, which was later renamed the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Due to the rapid movement of forces in the early stages of the war ...
Pages in category "Burials at Ipswich General Cemetery" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) is an intergovernmental organisation of six independent member states; United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, and South Africa, established through royal charter to mark, record and maintain the graves and places of commemoration of Commonwealth of Nations military forces killed during the two World Wars. [1]
The commission, as part of its mandate, is responsible for commemorating all Commonwealth war dead individually and equally. To this end, the war dead are commemorated by a name on a headstone, at an identified site of a burial, or on a memorial. War dead are commemorated uniformly and equally, irrespective of military or civil rank, race or creed.
During "Operation Glory" which occurred from July to November 1954 the dead of each side were exchanged; remains of 4,167 US soldiers/Marines were exchanged for 13,528 North Korean/Chinese dead. [96] After "Operation Glory" 416 Korean War "unknowns" were buried in the Punchbowl Cemetery. According to a DPMO white paper.
Following the passage of the Burial Act 1854 (17 & 18 Vict c 87), Municipal Borough of Ipswich was empowered to establish a Burial Board. This they did in AUgust of that year, and arranged to buy some land to the North East of the town from John Cobbold. The cemetery was laid out by William Davidson, with access provided by Cemetery Road. [2]
USAF Military Cemetery American Military Cemetery, 1946 During World War II , American military personnel who died in or near Australia were buried in a 6.5-acre (2.6 ha) extension of Ipswich General Cemetery as a temporary arrangement until their bodies could be returned to the United States after the war.